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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pragmatism Section II (Lectures V-VIII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are wary of new information.
(b) They are accepting of new information.
(c) They are angry at new information.
(d) They are comforted by new information.

2. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?
(a) Moral simplicity.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Individual simplicity.

3. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?
(a) Plural.
(b) Monist.
(c) Casual.
(d) Generic.

4. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Virtue vs. vices.
(b) Moral vs. immoral.
(c) Having vs. seeing.
(d) Being vs. doing.

5. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express experience.
(b) The inability to express virtue.
(c) The inability to express charity.
(d) The inability to express ascetism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?

2. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

3. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?

4. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?

5. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?

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